Here’s what else has happened

• 🗳Trump’s ‘friend’ crashes the race for UN secretary general right before the straw poll. The entry of former Ecuadorian diplomat and trade minister Ivonne A-Baki – who also holds Lebanese citizenship – as the latest candidate to run for the top job prompts questions on whether she can garner support from the Security Council’s five permanent members, while her own countries are not backing her.
  Envoy (EN)
• 🇺🇳US rebukes UN General Assembly president's handling of election of UN chief. The US representative, Jennifer Locetta, told the Security Council that the General Assembly president overstepped her role by requiring that all candidates participate in an interactive dialogue with the assembly before straw polls are held, and by holding an informal audience survey following a televised discussion in July.
  Devex (EN)
• 😷Political declaration on pandemics is modified ahead of UN meeting. Adjustments to the text to be adopted during the high-level week at the UN General Assembly next month include reducing a review of pandemic preparedness from five to three years.
  Health Policy Watch (EN)
• 🕵🏻‍♂️More questions than answers about the Israeli mole inside the UN. These include how Yahav Lichner, a UN employee, was hired for a plum job at Unicef in Washington and as an advisor to the UN’s senior humanitarian and reconstruction coordinator for Gaza.
  Pass Blue (EN)
• 🚺US assumes control over global anti-abortion Geneva Consensus Declaration, affirms religious groups. The initiative, which was not signed in Geneva in spite of its name, is supported b 42 governments, including several ranked among the worst countries for women’s rights.
  Health Policy Watch (EN)
• 🗣Do not instrumentalise international Geneva in neutrality debate. Ahead of next month’s Swiss popular vote on neutrality, former Swiss ambassador François Nordmann writes that the country’s position has never impacted international Geneva nor its cooperation with the United Nations.
  Le Temps🔐 (FR)